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July 24, 1923. Llfizfiifiil J. "r. BOYLE ORNAMENTAL TRANS PARENCY Filed May 23. 1921 Patented July 24, 1923.

JOHN T. BOYLE, OF RANDOLPH; MASSACHUSETTS ORNAMENTAL TRANSPARENCY.

Application filed May 23,

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, JOHN T. BOYLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Randolph, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ornamental Transparencies, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to ornamental structures and particularly to ornamental transparencies, and it has for its object to provide an improved device of this kind.

To this end I have provided a transparent ornamental structure having the peculiar features of construction and combination of parts set forth in the following description, the novel and distinguishing features of said structure being particularly pointed out and defined in the claims at the close thereof.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is an elevation of an ornamental transparent pendant constructed in accordance with my invention.

Figure 2 is a bottom edge view of the pendant shown in Fig. 1.

Figure 3 is an enlarged section on line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Figures 1, 5, 6 and 7 are details hereinafter described.

Herein I have embodied my invention in an ornamental transparent pendant comprising a panel 1 of flexible textile fabric of open mesh made up of weft and warp threads 2 and 3 separated to leave relatively large rectangular meshes so that the panel is substantially transparent. Any other suitable transparent sheet material may, however, be substituted, such, for example, as glass, wire netting, celluloid, etc., although I prefer a flexible porous transparent textile fabric of open mesh for pendants of the kind herein illustrated.

To the panel 1 are secured two sets 4 and 5 of design elements, preferably pieces of transparent colored glass, one set being distributed upon one side of panel 1 and the other set upon the opposite side thereof. The glass pieces comprising the set 4 upon one side of panel 1 are arranged in accordance with a selected useful or ornamental, or both useful and ornamental, design while those comprising the set 5 upon the opposite side of panel 1 are arranged in accordance with the same design and positioned so that each piece of one set is directly opposite one of the pieces of the other set. Each set may,

1921. Serial No. 471,906.

as shown, comprise pieces of different shapes adapted to the selected design and corresponding or registering pieces of the two sets are preferably of the same shape but of different sizes. Also, it is desirable, for the best effects, to arrange companion pieces of the two sets so that the smaller one of each pair is centrally, or symmetrically, disposed with respect to the margin of the larger piece.

As herein shown the two elements of each registering pair of elements 4 and 5 are firmly secured together and to the porous textile fabric panel 1 by means of transparent and preferably colorless cement 6 which extends through the meshes of the fabric from one element to the other. Any other suitable means, however, may be substituted for the cement although the latter serves very well in the case of a pendant such as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings. It is well, also, in an article of this kind to avoid abutting adjacent elements of each set and to leave a space between the same thereby giving fiexibility to the structure.

The beauty and ornamental character of the structure may be greatly enhanced by the employment of pieces of glass'of different colors. one of the elements of the set a as consisting of a relatively large flat piece of yellow glass and Fig. 5 shows its companion piece of set 5 as consisting of a relatively small fiat piece of blue glass. These two pieces, when mounted upon panel 1 opposite each other, as shown in Fig. 6, present to view a green middle area 5 surrounded by a yellow border 4', the green color of said middle area being produced'through the combination of the two colors yellow and blue. Another pretty effect is produced by having registering, or companion, elements of the same color, such as red, in which case a dark red middle area 5 (Fig. 7) surrounded by a light red border 4", is presented to view.

Thus, with a transparent panel 1 and two sets of glass elements of various colors and shapes, very ornamental, artistic and useful structures may be produced at very low cost.

By superimposing the glass elements upon the panel 1 the edges of the glass pieces are left exposed to effect reflection of light there by giving brilliancy to the appearance of the structure.

It is not essential with my invention that.

For example, Figure 4 shows both sets of design elements consist of pieces 7 of glass or the like, as in some forms of my invention I contemplate having only one set of glass elements in position upon the outer or front side of the transparent panel, while the other set of elements upon the opposite side of said panel may consist of strips of any suitable material, such as paper, tracing cloth or the like, preferably more or less transparent.

What I claim is:

1. An ornamental structure of the haracter described, comprising a panel of transparent material; a set of independent transparent design elements distributed about upon one side of said panel so as to form a design; a set of design elements distributed about upon the other side of said panel so as to form a similar design positioned to register with the first design, and means securing all of said elements to said panel.

2. An ornamental structure of the character described comprising a panel of transparent material; a set of glass design elements distributed about upon one side of said panel so as to form a design; a set of glass design elements distributed about upon the opposite side of said panel so as to form a similar design positioned to register with the first design, and means securing all of said elements to said panel, each element of one of said sets being made smaller than its companion element of theother set.

3. An ornamental structure of the character described comprising a panel of transparent material; a set or glass design elements distributed about upon one side of said panel so as to form a design; a set of glass design elements distributed about upon the opposite side of said panel so as to form a similar design positioned to register with the first design, and means securing all of said elements to said panel, some or" the elements of one of said sets being made each smaller than and of a different color from that of its companion element of the other set.

5. An ornamental structure of the character described comprising a panel consisting of a flexible piece of textile fabric having open meshes; a set of independent glass design elements distributed about upon one side of said panel so as to form a design; a set of independent glass design elements distributed about upon the other side of said panel so as to form a similar design positioned to register with the first design, each element of said last mentioned set constituting a companion oi" one of the elements of the first set; and cement securing each pair of companion elements together and to said panel. r

6. An ornamental structure of the char acter described constructed in accordance with claim 5 and having some of the elementsoi one of said sets each made smaller than its companion element of the other set and of a different color from that of its said companion element.

'7. An ornamental structure of the character described comprising a flexible panel of transparent material; a set of independent glass design elements distributed about upon one side of said panel so as to form a design; a set of companion elements distributed about upon the other side of said panel so as to form a similar design positioned to register with the first design, and means extending through the panel for fastening the two sets of elements together and to said panel.

8. An ornamental structure of the character described comprising a panel consisting of a flexible piece of flexible fabric having open meshes; a set of independent glass design elements distributed about upon one side of said panel so as to form a design; a set of independent companion elements distributed about upon theother side of said panel soas to form a similar design positioned to register with the first design, and

cement securing each glass element to its companion element and to said panel.

In testimony whereof I have aiiixed my signature.

JOHN T. BOYLE. 

